• FISHING/AQUACULTURE WEEK
    VESSEL REVIEW | Télémaque – New scallop fisher and trawler for fifth-generation French fisherman

    VESSEL REVIEW | Télémaque – New scallop fisher and trawler for fifth-generation French fisherman

  • VESSEL REVIEW | Ocean Swell X – Highly automated, beamy lobster boat for Atlantic Canada

    VESSEL REVIEW | Ocean Swell X – Highly automated, beamy lobster boat for Atlantic Canada

  • VESSEL REVIEW | Janne-Kristin and Iris – State-of-the-art trawler pair for the North Sea

    VESSEL REVIEW | Janne-Kristin and Iris – State-of-the-art trawler pair for the North Sea

  • VESSEL REVIEW | Unique sockeye-fishing pair for Alaska

    VESSEL REVIEW | Unique sockeye-fishing pair for Alaska

  • VESSEL REVIEW | Purpose-built Kiwi scampi trawler

    VESSEL REVIEW | Purpose-built Kiwi scampi trawler

  • VESSEL REVIEW | Télémaque – New scallop fisher and trawler for fifth-generation French fisherman
  • VESSEL REVIEW | Ocean Swell X – Highly automated, beamy lobster boat for Atlantic Canada
  • VESSEL REVIEW | Janne-Kristin and Iris – State-of-the-art trawler pair for the North Sea
  • VESSEL REVIEW | Unique sockeye-fishing pair for Alaska
  • VESSEL REVIEW | Purpose-built Kiwi scampi trawler
    BAIRD MARITIME AWARDS
    AWARDS 2019 | Best Steering Supplier – Palmarine

    AWARDS 2019 | Best Steering Supplier – Palmarine

    By Baird Maritime

    Best Steering Supplier – Palmarine Palmarine went international many years ago when it moved from Sydney to Singapore. Originally well known in Australia for its versatile, innovative and high quality hydraulic steering systems for fishing boats, tugs, ferries and other commercial vessels, it is now very much a global ..

    BAIRD MARITIME AWARDS
    Baird Maritime “Best of 2019” Awards

    Baird Maritime “Best of 2019” Awards

    By Alex Baird

    Welcome to the Baird Maritime “Best of 2019” awards. When it came to deciding the winners for 2019, we again turned to the blueprint originally devised seven years ago. With only minor tweaks and improvements, the judging criteria have largely remained unchanged. For the best marine equipment suppliers, market ..

    NAVAL ARCHITECTURE WEEK
    EDITORIAL | Naval architecture, a fast developing art and science

    EDITORIAL | Naval architecture, a fast developing art and science

    By Neil Baird

    Naval architecture is arguably one of the world’s oldest professions. There is ample evidence of it existing for more than five millennia! And, like many other professions, even, perhaps, the oldest, it has always combined the best of science and art. As the maritime world transformed from sails and galley slaves through ..

    NAVAL ARCHITECTURE WEEK
    Welcome to Naval Architecture Week!

    Welcome to Naval Architecture Week!

    By Alex Baird

    It’s everything naval architecture this week and next at BairdMaritime.com as we visit all four corners of the globe to bring you the latest news, vessel reviews, features and opinion pieces covering all aspects of maritime design. Design • Testing • Analysis • Software • Engineering Remember to come back ..

    FISHING/AQUACULTURE WEEK
    COLUMN | Who will catch the fish?

    COLUMN | Who will catch the fish?

    By Alan Haig-Brown

    I often find myself joining the cause of fishermen around the world lamenting the lack of consultation by government scientists and bureaucrats with legitimate fishermen. The governing bodies define total allowable catches and negotiate international boundaries or close areas to create marine parks. Sometimes there will be ..

    FISHING/AQUACULTURE WEEK
    EDITORIAL | Aquaculture service vessels get bigger and better

    EDITORIAL | Aquaculture service vessels get bigger and better

    By Neil Baird

    As was strongly predicted more than twenty years ago by our Australian aquaculture columnist and leading fish farmer, Hagen Stehr, fish farming is moving further offshore and the vessels required to service those fish farms have become bigger, more powerful and more versatile. While Hagen’s predictions may have been a few ..

    Baird Maritime “Best of 2019” Awards

    Baird Maritime “Best of 2019” Awards

    Welcome to the Baird Maritime “Best of 2019” awards. When it came to deciding the winners for 2019, we again turned to the blueprint originally devised seven ..

    Rohr-Idreco delivers jet suction dredger to HH Van der Velde

    Rohr-Idreco delivers jet suction dredger to HH Van der Velde

    By Baird Maritime

    Netherlands-based Rohr-Idreco Dredgers has handed over a new jet suction dredger to local operator HH Van der Velde. The newbuild has a working depth of 40 metres and may ..

    Damen to begin refit of PSV for aquaculture work

    Damen to begin refit of PSV for aquaculture work

    By Baird Maritime

    Damen will soon commence work to convert a platform supply vessel (PSV) into an aquaculture support vessel for a Norwegian customer. The PSV World Opal will be converted ..

    About Us

    Fishing and its up-and-coming counterpart aquaculture are critical components of the world’s food supply.

    Fishing Boat World, launched in 1989, is there to catch all the catching, processing, regulation and enforcement developments affecting this unique industry.

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